Immigration court · Napanoch, NY
Ulster Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Ulster's 3.1% grant rate is among the lowest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 3.1% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 3.1%
- Asylum grant rate
- 96.9%
- Asylum denial rate
- 174
- Pending cases
- 22 mo
- Time to decision
Ulster in one line
Ulster's asylum grant rate is 3.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 96 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 3.1%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 96
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -45.2 pp
- vs. national average
- Solo bench
- Judge-level grant spread · solo
What this court's record shows
Ulster Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 3.1% across 96 FY2015–2025 merits (45.2 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The extract reports 1 judge-level series with enough decisions to show here. Court-level rates still combine many case-specific factors, so this aggregate is context rather than a prediction.
174 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 22 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
46/100
Ulster, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate F 3.1%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C+ 22 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A 0.4%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
Ulster Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
96 75th of 77 higher than 2 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Ulster sits: Fast but Tough
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.0 months) across this set. Ulster's own grant rate is 3.1% and its average wait is 21.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Ulster Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
96merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Ulster: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 10 | 0.0% |
| FY2016 | 16 | 0.0% |
| FY2017 | 11 | 0.0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | 0.0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | 0.0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | 0.0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | 0.0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | 0.0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | 20.0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | 0.0% |
| FY2025 | 14 | 14.3% |
The judge lottery at Ulster Immigration Court
1 judge with enough asylum decisions to report.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge RFS | 75 | |
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Lower-third grant-rate court Ulster (3.1%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Ulster's 96-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Ulster Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.